In November 1946, the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked a railroad twenty-one times in a three week period, eventually causing shell-shocked Arab railway workers to strike.

Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.

Gilbert was one of the first celebrity architects in America, designing skyscrapers in New York City and Cincinnati, campus buildings at Oberlin College and the University of Texas, state capitols in Minnesota and West Virginia, the support towers of the George Washington Bridge, various railroad stations ( including the New Haven Union Station ), and the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D. C .. His reputation declined among some professionals during the age of Modernism, but he was on the design committee that guided and eventually approved the modernist design of Manhattan's groundbreaking Rockefeller Center: when considering Gilbert's body of works as whole, it is more eclectic than many critics admit.

Although the resort was initially dependent upon railroad and electric trolley service, the completion of Virginia Beach Boulevard in 1922, which extended from Norfolk to the oceanfront, opened the way for automobiles, buses, trucks, and passenger rail service, the latter of which was eventually discontinued.

First coming to Nottoway in the 1850s, railroad construction and associated industries eventually came to represent a major portion of business in the area.

A railroad called the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio line was chartered in 1851 and would eventually run through Union County with station points at Richwood, Woodland, Claibourne, Pottersburg, Broadway, and Peoria.

Harrisonville eventually was served by railroad lines presently known as the Missouri Pacific and the Frisco.

It was the railroad which terminated in Ludington that chartered the first break bulk ship to move goods for the railroad and solidified the need for an ever expanding fleet of boats, eventually creating the largest fleet of carferries in the world.

The railroad was eventually named Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad.

A Southern Pacific depot and U. S. Post Office building in the style of the first half of the 20th century originally stood at the railroad junction, but it was closed in the late 1950s and eventually razed soon afterward.

The community evolved from the settlement surrounding the railroad depot, eventually incorporating in 1941.

Gilbert was eventually the home to a repair shop for the railroad, which ceased operation in 1946.

The myth persists, even today, that the SJVRR was eventually to cross the Sierra and connect with an existing major railroad to create a transcontinental link.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

The railroad line eventually runs farther to the south of Route 57 before the route crosses County Route 519 ( Uniontown Road ).

The canal's right of way and towpath was eventually used for a railroad, portions of which were active up to the 1990s.

William Astor also built a hotel, saw mill, and eventually a railroad, the St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway, which departed town headed inland towards the communities of Eustis and Leesburg.

Later in the 19th century, a railroad line that eventually came under the control of the Santa Fe Railroad was laid through the eastern portions of the township, but no railroad actually passed through the village itself.

Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois ' ( then ) two biggest cities — Chicago and Quincy — as well as a third leg initially terminating across the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence onward to the Western frontier.

To fund the railroad, local towns and townships would issue bonds, which the taxpayers would eventually retire.

Over the next few years, other settlers moved in around the area, and eventually a railroad was built through the area.

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

The first railroad in Indiana reached Columbus from Madison, Indiana in 1844.

The railroad fostered the growth of the community into one of the largest communities in Indiana, and three more railroads reached the city by 1850.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

In 1890, the railroad reached town, which brought in more mines and brought out more ore.

The railroad reached Alamosa by 1878.

Hill chose to build his railroad north of the competing Northern Pacific line, which had reached the Pacific Northwest over much more difficult terrain with more bridges, steeper grades, and tunnelling.

Six months after the railroad reached Seattle came the depression called the Panic of 1893.

Although the first railroad had reached nearby Grafton in 1852, a narrow-gauge railroad was not laid through the County until the early 1880s ; a standard gauge line followed in the 1890s.

The first railroad reached Athens in 1857.

The railroad reached Titusville in 1886 and Melbourne in 1894.

The Flagler railroad reached the area in the 1890s.

En route, they are told by casually met strangers that the railroad line has reached Abilene, Kansas, much closer than Missouri.

The railroad reached Presidio County in 1882 when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway laid tracks through its northeastern corner.

Plant's railroad line reached Tampa and its port shortly thereafter, finally connecting the small town to the nation's railroad system after years of efforts by local leaders.

The railroad reached Harrison County in 1869.

The first railroad through the county was the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ) which was built from the east across the northern part of the county and reached Attica in 1856 ; it continued west through Warren County and reached the Illinois state line the following year.

Manufacturing and textile production operations were the major industries in Clarke County, especially after the railroad reached Athens in 1841.

In 1913, a reorganized railroad, the Denver & Salt Lake, reached as far as Craig, the county seat, but no further.